The Joke

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Good in Good jacket Remainder Author's first novel.

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Very Good First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Very Good dust jacket.

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Very Good 0060149876 Very Good Condition. Has some wear. Five star seller-Buy with confidence!

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B/w Title Vignette Very Good in J Very Good jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall In pictorial jacket, 8vo. 288 pages. "Kundera's novel of Czech Stalinism has the directness of a fist in the face" (Time magazine, quoted on jacket front flyleaf). Originally published in Czechoslovakia under title: Zert (and in Austria and Germany under title: Der Scherz). First U.S. Edition of a complete translation.

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Very good in very good dust jacket. Legendary independent bookstore online since 1994. Reliable customer service and no-hassle return policy.

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Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket Book Slight lean. Light rubbing to jacket.

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Very Good in Very Good jacket Very good, in very good price clipped jacket. First English edition. Minor spotting to top and bottom edge of text block. Spine has slight twist. Jacket spine and edges lightly sunned. Front flap creased. Get the product you want, in the condition you expect. No ex-library items. No markings, unless indicated. We shrink wrap most items and ship in new corrugated boxes.

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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket Book Hardcover in jacket with half-inch tear.

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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket Book Previous owner name stamp. Near fine jacket.

Used Very Good(1 Copy):
Very Good jacket First Edition. Fist edition. Very Good in Very Good unclipped dust jacket. NO markings in text. Binding is still tight. Publisher's mark at the bottom of the text block. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

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Used Very Good(1 Copy):
New York. 1982. Harper & Row. 1st Edition Of This New Translation. Very Good In Dustjacket. Newly Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. 267 pages. November 1982. hardcover. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. 0060149876. keywords: Literature Translated Czech Eastern Europe. inventory # 2748. FROM THE PUBLISHER-All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after THE JOKE was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera s work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence. The present edition provides English-language readers an important further means toward revaluation of THE JOKE. For reasons he describes in his Author's Note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating (with the assistance of his American publisher-editor) a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also to the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The result is nothing less than the restoration of a classic. (original title: Zert, 1967-Ceskoslovensky spisovatel, Prague).

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Used Very Good(1 Copy):
Near Fine in Near Fine jacket The first Harper & Row edition of the author's first novel; published 8 years after the 1st American edition; remainder mark on bottom edge; translated by Michael Henry Heim; 267pp.